Hege Crowton our expert of the day, writes:

Plant food as was mentioned, is commercially prepared and designed to replenish nutrient depletion in soil. These are made in tablet and powder form and they are water soluble and can be fed to plants in liquid form.

Plant food gives gardener many improvements over using manure or manure mixes. Firstly, they have no odor, and take up minimal space. Secondly, the mixes are scientifically prepared and come with instructions on how and when they should be used.

As with soil, you may want to mix your own, however there is no use in attempting to mix something that will unfortunately never live up to the commercial products on the market.

Plants you buy are already in the pot, and should be OK without extra additives for around a month or so. If this fails to make the plant thrive, or if the plant shows signs of distress, it is more likely something is wrong with the plant or its environment, and not due to lack of nutrients.

If within a month, the plant continues to be in distress, then you may need to feed it. Remember, when using a plant food, to use the instructions carefully, they are developed after careful research and designed to improve the health of your plants.

Plant food as was mentioned, is commercially prepared and designed to replenish nutrient depletion in soil. These are made in tablet and powder form and they are water soluble and can be fed to plants in liquid form.

Plant food gives gardener many improvements over using manure or manure mixes. Firstly, they have no odor, and take up minimal space. Secondly, the mixes are scientifically prepared and come with instructions on how and when they should be used.

As with soil, you may want to mix your own, however there is no use in attempting to mix something that will unfortunately never live up to the commercial products on the market.

Plants you buy are already in the pot, and should be OK without extra additives for around a month or so. If this fails to make the plant thrive, or if the plant shows signs of distress, it is more likely something is wrong with the plant or its environment, and not due to lack of nutrients.

If within a month, the plant continues to be in distress, then you may need to feed it. Remember, when using a plant food, to use the instructions carefully, they are developed after careful research and designed to improve the health of your plants.

Abhishek Agarwal our expert of the day, writes:

Though the term Indoor Hydroponics Gardening sounds very technical and scientific in nature, it has a pretty simple meaning. It means the method of gardening without using soil and using only water, sand, air and gravel instead. Delving into the etymology behind the word hydroponics reveals that ‘hydro’ stands for water and ‘ponics’ for labor.

To surprise you further, Indoor Hydroponics Gardening is being practiced for hundreds of years. It is common knowledge among history enthusiasts that how Marco Polo heaped praises on the Chinas Floating Gardens and How the Babylons Hanging Gardens conceptualized way back in 604-562 BC are still a sight to behold.

There are mainly two methods of practicing Indoor Hydroponics Gardening. The first is passive Indoor Hydroponics Gardening that involves a wick system to help plants derive all the required nutrients from an external source. This method is very similar to the way a wick functions in a kerosene lamp by extracting all the nutrients from a feeding source. This method is not very popular owing to its poor efficiency as compared to the other method.